Back to School Flyers

What Are Back to School Flyers

They are full color flyers that schools, tutors, clubs, PTAs and retailers send out at the start of term: open house invites, class schedules, after-school programs, fundraiser notices, supply drives and seasonal sales. For a bolder piece for a big event, the Grand Opening Flyers cover the same sizes.

School Flyer Design Ideas and Templates

Each kind of flyer a school sends home has a different job, so the same design does not work for all of them.

• Supply list. One column per grade, nothing else. A parent carries it into a store, so set it at a pocket size, keep the type larger than looks necessary, and print on uncoated stock so items can be ticked off with a pen.
• First day schedule. Bell times, bus numbers, drop off and pick up points. It goes on a fridge, so print it single sided as a table rather than paragraphs.
• Open house. The date, the time and the room have to read from across a corridor, because this flyer is pinned up as often as handed out. Use the top third for those three facts.
• Enrollment drive. Aimed outside the school gate, so say who you are before asking for anything: what makes the school worth choosing, the deadline, how to apply, and a QR code to the form.
• Club sign up. These compete on a notice board, so a strong single image and one line about when the club meets beats a paragraph of history.
• Fundraiser. The goal, what the money buys and how to give, in that order; naming the specific thing being bought makes the ask concrete.

School flyers all year, not just August

The same product covers the calendar: parent evening and book fair flyers in the fall, sports tryout notices, winter concert programs, spring enrollment and field trip letters. Keep one house layout and swap only the words, and every piece a family receives looks like it came from the same school.

What Size Should a Back to School Flyer Be

The 4.25" x 5.5" is the pocket-friendly handout for a backpack insert or a table stack. The 5.5" x 8.5" half-page gives a schedule room to breathe, a slim 4" x 9" fits a rack, and the 4.25" x 11" or the full 11" x 25.5" makes a poster-scale announcement for a hallway or a storefront. For a stepped edge, the Staggered Cut Flyers stack with a layered cut, and the Standard Flyers cover the everyday runs.

Pick a stock that fits the job

• Gloss text for backpack handouts. When a flyer goes home in five hundred backpacks, weight and cost are the whole argument: the 100# gloss text keeps photographs bright, costs the least per piece and adds no bulk.
• Cover stock for notice boards. Anything pinned up for a month needs to be stiffer than text weight or it curls; the gloss covers stand up on a board and survive being moved.
• Uncoated for anything parents write on. The 70# uncoated text suits permission slips, order forms and supply lists, since a pen skids on a coated sheet. The 14pt uncoated cover with 30% post-consumer waste gives a heavier, recycled form.

The High Gloss UV Coating makes photographs look their best and writing on the flyer close to impossible, so use it on the concert program and keep it off the form you want returned on Monday.

Design it without a designer

Start from a laid out flyer in our flyer design templates, then change the colors, copy and logo in the online editor.

Building the file yourself? The blank back to school flyer template carries the trim line, the 1/8" bleed and the safe margin for your size, which keeps a phone number out of the cut.

How Much Do Back to School Flyers Cost

A 1,000-flyer run is $126.32 and 6,000 run $280.09, under 5 cents each. The tiers are built in as bulk discounts, and every order earns 4OVER4 loyalty coins worth up to 13% off a future order. The slider below covers the first six tiers, from 50 to 500.

Can You Get a Proof Before Printing

Yes. Add a free online proof to check your file on screen, or a next-day hardcopy proof to hold a physical sample first; if your artwork is final, choose Straight To Production.

How Do Back to School Flyers Compare to the Rest of the Range

The comparison below puts them beside club, die-cut and business flyers with the starting price of each.

How Fast Can You Get Back to School Flyers

Standard production is 3 business days, and when a first-day deadline sneaks up you can move to 2-day, Next-Day or Same-Day production for a set amount on top of the base price. Order a same-day job by the daily cutoff and it ships that afternoon; see the same day printing details first.

See the Rest of Our Flyers

Scan the full print product range. Hang education posters where a flyer would be missed, on corridor walls and in the gym, and see the whole start of year set together in back to school printing.

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